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how do we shelter love?
oh so fine & so rare Mist in the Morning, Nothing Around Me But Sand & Roses Was I lost? No question. Did I know where I was? Not at all. Had I ever been happier in my life? Never. …..Mary...
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marooned in the mystery of longing
sangha lives Humans have always felt less than perfect in one way or another, & we probably always will. Over a lifetime, the obvious becomes inescapable: we will never achieve any ideal of...
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considering our roots which help us to fly
fly…. We create big problems for ourselves by not recognizing mind energies when they arrive dressed up in stories. They are like the neighbor’s children disguised as Halloween ghosts. When we open the...
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the beauty & the terror of living in the light
a daunting task…. In the West, our ideal of a whole person is someone who is adjusted, creative, not destroyed by passion and addiction, and successful by some worldly standard. The Dhammapada suggests...
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to surrender to love in our raw & vital longing
The sense of our movement through the ever-changing flux of life’s events as a journey is certainly an almost universal human experience. Our life is a journey, with a beginning, middle, and end; it...
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happy anniversary to make believe boutique….a heartfulness journey…
is love big enough? Today is the One Year Anniversary of Make Believe Boutique…… I love this blog, love to connect, love to create, love to be here…. ….a beautiful day to celebrate…. …..Blessings to...
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a clear & rippling reflection of inter-being
fine & pure self-reflection Perhaps it is a reflection of the individualism in current philosophies that the phrase ‘care of the soul’ is sometimes taken to mean work on one’s individual psyche or...
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honoring the power of the mundane spirit
Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. You will not find me in stupas, not in Indian shrine rooms, nor in synagogues, nor in cathedrals: not in masses, nor...
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the sweet nothings of the intimate heart
Involuntary and immediate feeling reveals to us the meaning of love as the highest manifestation of individual life, which finds in union with another being its own proper infinity……Vladimir Solovyov...
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how intimately we shelter each other
Spiritual maturity is an acceptance of life in relationship. …..Jack Kornfield we don’t know what love really is…..it’s greatest gift is the laying down of gray lines and the picking up of hard...
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living in sunshine
Surrender is not an abdication of will or power, but a deepened intimacy with living. Relationship is the means of surrender, for in relationship- whether to people, places, or things- there are no...
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who your besties really are
When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness. Understanding someone’s suffering is the best...
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